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PHP and MySQL For Dummies [Kindle Edition]

Janet Valade (Author)

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Product Description

Here's what Web designers need to know to create dynamic, database-driven Web sites

To be on the cutting edge, Web sites need to serve up HTML, CSS, and products specific to the needs of different customers using different browsers. An effective e-commerce site gathers information about users and provides information they need to get the desired result.

PHP scripting language with a MySQL back-end database offers an effective way to design sites that meet these requirements. This full updated 4th Edition of PHP & MySQL For Dummies gets you quickly up to speed, even if your experience is limited.

Explains the easy way to install and set up PHP and MySQL using XAMPP, so it works the same on Linux, Mac, and Windows
Shows you how to secure files on a Web host and how to write secure code
Packed with useful and understandable code examples for Web site creators who are not professional programmers
Fully updated to ensure your code will be compliant based on PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.31
Provides clear, accurate code examples

PHP & MySQL For Dummies, 4th Edition provides what you need to know to create sites that get results.

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Updated for PHP 5 and MySQL 4

Create dynamic, interactive Web pages on Windows^®, Linux^®, or Mac OS^® X systems

Open up a whole new world of Web database applications with PHP and MySQL, the perfect open source pair! This handy guidebook shows you how, with sample applications of an online catalog and a members–only Web site. Get the scoop on security issues, set up your Apache Web server, design the ideal database, and more.

The Dummies Way

Explanations in plain English
"Get in, get out" information
Icons and other navigational aids
Tear–out cheat sheet
Top ten lists
A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

Plan and develop a Web database application
Design and build the database
Write custom PHP application programs
Work with numbers and character strings
Move information from one Web page to another

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 4490 KB
Print Length: 457 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0470527587
Publisher: For Dummies; 4 edition (10 Dec 2009)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0030V0PQU
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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64 of 64 people found the following review helpful

Great stuff for newcomers to PHP 9 July 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

As a complete novice to the world of PHP and MySQL, I selected this book in the hope that it would provide an introduction to the subject that I could understand quickly, as well as providing me with enough information to begin coding the applications I needed to.

It didn't disappoint - I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who, like me, comes from a straight-up HTML coding background with no prior programming knowledge whatsoever. It provides a great introduction to both the SQL and PHP languages, and the real-world examples are very useful and straightforward.

Those who have prior coding experience of any kind would probably find it slow going and would be better off with a more advanced title - since reading this I purchased Greenspan and Bulger's 'MySQL/PHP Database Applications' which is a more in-depth and comprehensive affair but which may have overwhelmed me somewhat had I chosen it as my first book on the subject!

Anyway, as a measure of the book's success, within three weeks of receiving it I had successfully implemented a 'members only' fan club area of a website for a client based on the code examples supplied with the book, as well as creating an online competition application of my own from scratch.

There are a couple of errors in the code supplied, but spotting and correcting these is good practice! Otherwise I'm really hard-pressed to find any other criticisms - for the price it's got to be the best introduction to PHP out there.

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful

Saved My Career 21 Sep 2002

By Mike Rouse

Format:Paperback

I'm an ideas man and at work I had an idea to use a .php page to connect to a MySQL database and retrieve store information, call notes, and much more. I would not have had this idea if it wasn't for this book. It taught me the basics - even helped me set up PHP and MySQL on my local machine so I now have a server! I had fun getting to the few errors - all part of the learning curve and could be the author, "just testing you". I'm going to move on to the next level of books now that this book has given me a firm foundation to build upon. Easy to understand and follow, not too heavy, free cd. This book is on my desk all the time as its great reference material once you've read it.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful

Very good, very readable, good value 23 July 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

This is a good intro to PHP and MySQL and I agree with my fellow Weegie.

It's quite a light read and getting all of Apache, MySQL and PHP on the CD is a positive bonus.

I knew nothing about either of these until I got this and I've picked them both up quite rapidly.

I think the next book will be the O'Reilly one but as a first book on the subject I think this makes a very good choice.

If I have one criticism it would be that it would have been nice to get a copy of the MySQL databases the book uses - then you could truly have played along with the examples in the text but really this would be a nice to have and it doesn't detract from the book in any great way at all.

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Feeding a generation of web developers with bad habits!

I saw this book in a bookshop and picked it up. Flicking through the examples, I saw some extremely insecure pieces, including passing POST variables directly into SQL queries (no... Read more

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